ABSTRACT
The international legal order only becomes animated within a statal framework based on strict territorial division that allows states, numerous in number, to exercise their authority within one of these defined spatial spaces. 1 The economic, strategic, political, technical, and normative registers of territory may largely be brought under the two broad heads of factual and legal approach. In the former, the territory is a sociological unit composed of all its possible factual expressions in relation to a defined portion of land giving rise to occupation, control, and exploitation including the functions of a state to the exclusion of any other. In the latter, the territory is constituted in and over a space in relation to which the coercive unity of juridical order remains by and large permanently effective. 2
